Jackson Chourio postgame, Brewers star provides injury update
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio left the team’s playoff game against the Chicago Cubs with hamstring tightness, but he said afterward that he “feels good.”
The Major League Baseball postseason always delivers something strange or unexpected.
The Milwaukee Brewers came into Game 2 of the National League Division Series on Oct. 6 having hit 48 postseason home runs in franchise history, and none of them had yielded more than two runs. Then came Monday night.
Andrew Vaughn’s first-inning blast capped a two-out rally and tied the Chicago Cubs at 3-3, marking the first three-run blast (or grand slam) in franchise lore.
In the fourth, it happened again. Jackson Chourio, highly questionable to play in the game after tweaking a hamstring in Game 1, belted an 0-2 pitch from Daniel Palencia over the wall in center field for another three-run homer, giving the Brewers a 7-3 lead.
The 101.4-mph pitch from Palencia was the second-fastest pitch in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008) a Brewers player has hit for a home run. Chourio now has hits in all five of his career postseason games.
To that point in the game, all seven Brewers runs had come on two-out homers.